Don’t Criminalize Gay Sex, U.N. Rights Chief Tells Indonesia
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein says extremist views playing out in country’s political arena are ‘deeply worrying’
JAKARTA — The United Nations’ chief human-rights official urged Indonesia to refrain from criminalizing gay sex in sweeping revisions to the criminal code that are currently under consideration in the world’s most-populous Muslim-majority nation.
“The extremist views playing out in the political arena are deeply worrying,” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said Wednesday during a three-day visit to Indonesia.
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